Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

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Please be careful where you browse this thread:

Previous threads:
Cool Pictures I: The Original Thousand
Cool Pictures II: One Million Amazing Words
Cool Pictures III: Bringing Gladness to a Weary Heart

 

[jtb1127]

Spoiler :

(Time picture of the week)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Quite happy that the thread's starter contributed to the last thread.

Anyway, subscription post and a space disease.

 

[cardgame]

Spoiler :

Volcanic emissions from Io.

 

[Tee Kay]

Subscribing

 

[mayor]

Spoiler :

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Borrowing heavy from Nat Geo.

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An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitos than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods.

 

[Verarde]

Spoiler :

:Rightclick: :save as:

 

[Arakhor]

That spider's web tree is really weird. I thought it had been photoshopped to begin with!

 

[cardgame]

Spoiler 1600x906 :

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Mountaintop removal mining?

 

[Monsterzuma]

close encounters of the 5th kind?

 

[cardgame]

Mt. Kilimanjaro.

 

[jtb1127]

From nat geo

 

[trader/warrior]

Map of part of the internet.

net, ca, us com, org mil, gov, edu
jp, cn, tw, au de, uk, it, pl, fr br, kr, nl unknown

 

[ShahJahanII]

Map of part of the internet.

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Now how do you "map" the internet?
I'm curious.

 

[trader/warrior]

http://opte.org/history/

Good deal of info and links there, but there's not really any simple overall explanations on how it works on that site. Don't really understand it myself.

 

[Kyriakos]

Michael Whelan's excellent "Leap of faith":

 

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[Heretic_Cata]

Lol Romania (?)

But to offset this, i did see nuns driving an SUV around here tho.